[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Set attribs with .name = value (original) (raw)

Andrew Bennetts andrew-pythondev at puzzling.org
Tue Mar 30 06:39:39 EST 2004

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:17:31AM -0600, Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

Someone suggested the following syntax for setting function attributes:

def func(arg, arg): .author = 'Guido van Rossum' .version = 42 Guido replied that he wanted to reserve ".name = value" for use in "with" blocks. These two uses are not in conflict at all -- in fact, they are perfectly compatible and i find the syntactic consistency elegant.

Although this would not (I hope) be a common use-case, what would this code mean:

with foo:
    def func(arg):
        .attrib = value
        pass

?

I'm not entirely sure it's safe to say they don't conflict, although I don't see this case as a serious problem.

-Andrew

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